NASA Space Shuttle Launch Tweeters Get Front Row Seat

Approximately 100 incredibly lucky Twitter members who managed to get just 100 (with 50 backup) positions for front-row seats at NASA's Space Shuttle Atlantis liftoff today from Cape Canaveral in Florida.

I don't know about you, but I've spent the morning following approximately 100 incredibly lucky Twitter members who managed to get just 100 (with 50 backup) positions for front-row seats at NASA's Space Shuttle Atlantis liftoff today from Cape Canaveral in Florida.

Once I got over my jealousy, I began feverishly following every tweet at #nasatweetup. That's the hash tag everyone has been using on Twitter to post Tweets from the tweetup and for others to retweet and follow. That was fun for a while, until I realized that tweets from those simply commenting on the lucky 100 were also mixed in. So I built my own Twitter List. So far I have almost half of the attendees in it.

As I write this, the liftoff is about an hour and a half away. If the weather holds, the Atlantis will blast into the stratosphere to deliver a load of supplies to the International Space Station. You can track the mission here and get insider posts and pictures by following along with the lucky Tweeters at my list.

A 25-year industry veteran and award-winning journalist, Lance Ulanoff is the former Editor in Chief of PCMag.com.
Lance Ulanoff has covered technology since PCs were the size of suitcases, ?on line? meant ?waiting? and CPU speeds were measured in single-digit megahertz. He?s traveled the globe to report on a vast array of consumer and business technology.
While a digital veteran, Lance spent his early years writing for newspapers and magazines. He?s been online since 1996 and ran Web sites for three national publications: HomePC, Windows Magazine...
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